Overview
The books of Samuel are a key link in the history of the biblical text in so much as they are found at a crossroad where different textual traditions encounter each other (MT, LXX, Qumran). Recent research tends to consider that the textual criticism has to take into account the literary aspects which characterise the most ancient transmission of the text. This assessment asks a variety of new exegetical questions considered in this volume: Does the comparative analysis of the textual witnesses permit proving the existence of distinct literary editions? Which are the criteria to deem the literary nature of the variants? Which ideological and theological motives governed the modifications of a previous text? Is it possible to establish a relative chronology between the putative editions? The study of the most ancient history of the text opens an archeology of the monument that are the books of Samuel. The search for their ancient foundations and the bringing to light of later modifications, the consideration both of the restorations and of the ruins of the textual edifice all throw new light on the final construct and its theological significance.
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Author: Philippe Hugo , Adrian Schenker
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Edition: XX, 302 Pp. ed.
Volume: 132
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Width: 16.00cm
, Height: 4.10cm
, Length: 24.00cm
Weight: 0.702kg
ISBN: 9789004179578
ISBN 10: 9004179577
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 15 December 2009
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Format: Hardback
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Language: English, German, French
Table of Contents
List of Contributors Anneli Aejmelaeus, University of Goettingen and University of Helsinki Greame Auld, University of Edinburg (retired) Pierre-Maurice Bogaert, University of Louvain-la-Neuve (retired) Walter Dietrich, University of Bern (retired) Innocent Himbaza, University of Fribourg Philippe Hugo, University of Friboug Jurg Hutzli, University of Zurich Siegfried Kreuzer, Kirchliche Horchschuhle Wuppertal Philippe Lefebvre, University of Fribourg Donald W. Parry, Brigham Young University Alexander Rofe, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (retired)s Adrian Schenker, University of Fribourg (retired) Peter Schwagmeier, University of Zurich Julio Trebolle, University Complutense of Madrid
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The volume Archaeology of the Books of Samuel. The Entangling of the Textual and Literary History is an important contribution to the philology and textual criticism of the Old Testament, and will give rise to new and promising research and debate. Dariusz Dziadosz, Institute of Biblical Studies CUL (The Biblical Annals, 2011).
The volume Archaeology of the Books of Samuel. The Entangling of the Textual and Literary History is an important contribution to the philology and textual criticism of the Old Testament, and will give rise to new and promising research and debate. Dariusz Dziadosz, Institute of Biblical Studies CUL (The Biblical Annals, 2011).
Author Information
Philippe Hugo, Ph.D. fellow of the Department of Biblical Studies of the University of Fribourg/Switzerland, is editor of 2 Samuel for the Göttingen Septuagint. He has published on the text history of Samuel and Kings including “Les deux visages d’Elie” (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2006). Adrian Schenker, Ph.D., is emeritus Professor of Old Testament at the University of Fribourg/Switzerland. He specializes in biblical theology, history of biblical law and religion, and textual criticism. He is president of the editorial board of the “Biblia Hebraica Quinta”.
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